Blog of Dr Darryl Sellwood

Provocative, disruptive and sometimes subversive — inventor of the Bummunicator!

Category: Personal Thoughts

  • Gaining happiness through gracefulness for other’s fortunes?

    Happiness is something that most of us want. We do almost anything for it. You just have to look on the Internet for thousands and thousands of ways to gain happiness. One of the many YouTube channels I subscribe to is called Charisma On Command. They do videos mostly on how to improve your communication…

  • Living in community?

    It’s almost a week since Rosa left and house is quiet. The neighbours moved out a about a week before I went over seas last month and no one has moved in yet. Every day I expect a removal van to put up next door with the next set neighbours. Peter, my old neighbour, still…

  • The Adelaide Disability Pride March 2015

    Friday, I went to the Disability Pride March in Adelaide and on reflecting on it, there is so much to unpack. I won’t unpack it all here now. Yes, weather was quite hot, held on a weekday mid-day and there would have been many people who were there in spirit due to the fact that…

  • Pushing through to the rest

    Going into the last week of my four week break from my study it has taken awhile to wind down. I thought by now I would be ready to get back to it. But nupe! I am going enjoy this week. The time leading up to the break was tough going yet highly productive. Within…

  • Break that writing block

    Writing is difficult for me on a number of levels. Physically, although I now I use eye gaze technology to write it can be also tiring. Sometime, I find myself falling asleep in the middle of typing, not sure what that is about. The other main difficulty I have is my spelling and grammar are…